ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,933, issued on July 21, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Live video-based interaction method and apparatus, device and storage medium" was invented by Dongbo Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Qintong Cai (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A live video-based interaction method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium, related to the field of livestreaming programs. The method includes: displaying a playback interface of a live video, the playback interface used to play a live video; displaying a node indication area in the playback interface in response to a video content of the live v...